Comments on: To Stand on One Foot http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2009/04/to-stand-on-one-foot spinning navel lint into fine yarn Wed, 19 May 2010 20:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Aharon http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2009/04/to-stand-on-one-foot/comment-page-1#comment-283 Aharon Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:35:33 +0000 http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/?p=725#comment-283 I must also note that the relationship between regel (foot) and regula (principle) was first recognized by someone much more clever than myself. Unfortunately, I cannot remember who... I think this was told to me by a friend (also not remembered) in the name of someone else. Whoever you are, forgive me for sharing your torah without giving you due credit. This in memory of the verse from the Pirkei Avot 6:6, on being a proper student: "…what he has heard from others he will quote in the name of him of whom he has heard it. For so you have learned: He who quotes something in the name of the person who said it brings deliverance to the world. For it is said: "And Esther said to the King in the name of Mordechai." "[A student] is careful to absorb and repeat accurately what they have heard from others and will never pass off as their own what others have told them." [Samson Raphael Hersh, Pirkei Avot] I must also note that the relationship between regel (foot) and regula (principle) was first recognized by someone much more clever than myself. Unfortunately, I cannot remember who… I think this was told to me by a friend (also not remembered) in the name of someone else. Whoever you are, forgive me for sharing your torah without giving you due credit. This in memory of the verse from the Pirkei Avot 6:6, on being a proper student:

“…what he has heard from others he will quote in the name of him of whom he has heard it. For so you have learned: He who quotes something in the name of the person who said it brings deliverance to the world. For it is said: “And Esther said to the King in the name of Mordechai.”

“[A student] is careful to absorb and repeat accurately what they have heard from others and will never pass off as their own what others have told them.” [Samson Raphael Hersh, Pirkei Avot]

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